MAMMALIA—BEAR. ill 
pressed by this poor beast in the last moments of her expiring young ones. 
Though she was herself dreadfully wounded, and could but just crawl to 
the place where they lay, she carried the lump of flesh she had fetched 
away, as she had done others before, tore it in pieces and laid it before 
them ; and when she saw that they refused to eat, she laid her paws first 
upon one and then upon the other, and endeavored to raise them up. When 
she found she could not stir them, she went off, and when she had got to 
some distance, she looked back and moaned. Finding this to no purpose, 
she returned, and, smelling round them, began to lick their wounds. She 
went off a second time as before; and, having crawled a few paces, looked 
again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But still her cubs not 
rising to follow her, she returned to them again; and, with signs of inex- 
pressible fondness, went round pawing them and moaning. Finding at last 
that they were cold and lifeless, she raised her head towards the ship, and 
uttered a growl of despair, which the murderers returned with a volley 
of musket balls. She fell between her cubs, and died licking their wounds.” 
Mr Scoresby mentions a singular circumstance with respect to a part 
of this animal. “The liver, I may observe, as a curious fact,” says he, “‘is 
hurtful, and even deleterious ; while the flesh and liver of the seal, on which 
it chiefly feeds, are nourishing and palatable. Sailors who have inadver- 
tently eaten the liver of bears, have almost always been sick after it: some 
have actually died; and the effects on others has been to cause the skin to 
peal off their bodies. This is, perhaps, almost the only instance known 
of any part of the flesh of a quadruped proving unwholesome.” 
THE LARGE, LIPPED BEAR 
Tuis animal, which was first brought from India about forty years ago, 
was at first misnamed the five-fingered, or ursine sloth. It has, however, 
1 Ursus labiatus, Desm. 
